He’s a Navy veteran, from the same planet as me, and a commoner who went completely insane over quite a few issues. That must have been related to someone under him and Minmatar by blood, maybe, a slave crew member during his service. And, yes, he’s certainly isn’t a Holder of any kind.
I suspect his mental state was the reason for being discharged from the Navy.
…I so miss my father. I’d wish Captain Ynir Azaph and that rotting husk of a sailor had a few words in private. I’d love to see younger and not so immortal version of Naups beaten into bloody pulp for whatever dung his disgusting mind constantly produces because it just can’t help itself. 